HIST110 Lecture : Full Semester of Lecture Notes
Document Summary
Warring states 700-300 bc - the philosophy of confucius, who is roughly a contemporary of buddha. Qin 300-200 bc built the great wall. Han 202 bc 200 ad - long distance trade, great prosperity and expansion. Sui 581-617 ad lost 3 campaigns against korea. If a dynasty fails, it is seen by sages as a moral failure. Although confucius s ideas were not readily accepted during his life time, they became popular years later. He was a low grade aristocrat with the family name k ung. The analects are a collection of his sayings that were recorded by his followers. His basic message was that people can be moulded and lifted by education and their superiors. He argued for a well-ordered society and claimed that ultimately people do not respond to coercion. Bad government should be rejected; even it threatens the short term social order.
